 Douglass
North, Founder
Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences. He joined the faculty of Washington University in
1983
as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of
Economics, and served as director of the Center for Political Economy
from
1984 to 1990. In 1992, he became the first economic historian every to
win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John
R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors
Society
in Economics in 1965. His current research includes property rights,
transaction
costs, and economic organization in history as well as economic
development
in developing countries.
 Itai
Sened, Director
Itai Sened received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990. He rose
to the rank of a senior lecturer with tenure of Political Science at
Tel Aviv University while maintaining a regular visiting scholar position
at Washington University in St. Louis. Since 1997 he has moved
permanently to St. Louis and is currently a Full Professor in the Department
of Political Science and the Director of the Center for New Institutional
Social Sciences (CNISS) at Washington University in St. Louis. He was
Chair of the Political Science department at Washington University from
2004-2007. His main interests are comparative theory of institutions,
game theory and applied mathematical modeling. His first book The
Political Institution of Private Property, was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1997. His second book Political Bargaining:
Theory, Practice and Process, co-authored with Gideon Doron, was
published by Sage Publication in 2001. He published numerous articles
in the top refereed journals in Political Science including, The
American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political
Science, The Journal of Politics, The British journal of Political Science,
the European Journal for Political Research, the Journal of Theoretical
Politics and many other refereed publications. He is the co-editor,
with Jack Knight, of Explaining Social Institutions from the
University of Michigan Press (1995). His most recent book, co-authored
with Norman Schofield and entitled: Multiparty Democracy (2006)
is with Cambridge University Press.
Alana Bame, Administrative
Assistant
Alana Bame joined CNISS in March of 2001. Alana handles all administrative
tasks related to the Center, plans conferences, workshops, and events, and assists
with the administration of programs such as the CNISS Certificate Program in Institutional
Social Science and the Hirsch Undergraduate Program. Her prior work experience includes conference planning activities,
editing, writing, and research for non-profit organizations and
associations in Washington, DC.
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2009-2010 CNISS Board of
Directors
Murray
Weidenbaum,
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Steven Fazzari,
Department of Economics
Sebastian Galiani, Department of Economics
Clarissa Hayward,
Department of Political Science
Carolyn Lesorogol,
GWB School of Social Work
Itai
Sened, CNISS
Director; Department of Political Science
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
2002-2003 CNISS Members
John Drobak,
School of Law; Department of Economics; Chairman of the Board of
Directors
Lee
Benham, Department of Economics
Margaret
Louise Brown, Department of Anthropology
Steven Fazzari,
Department of Economics
Wayne
Fields, Co-Director of American Culture Studies; Department of
English
Sukkoo
Kim, Department of Economics
Jack
Knight,
Department of Political Science
Gary
Miller,
CNISS Minor Advisor; Department of Political Science
Jack Nickerson,
Olin School of Business
Douglass North,
Nobel Prize Laureate; CNISS Founder; Department of Economics
Shanta Pandey,
GWB School of Social Work
Paul Rothstein,
Department of Economics; Associate Director of Weidenbaum Center
Norman
Schofield, Director of Center in Political Economy; Department of
Economics
Itai
Sened, CNISS
Director; Department of Political Science
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
Murray
Weidenbaum,
Honorary Chairman of Weidenbaum Center; Department of Economics
James
Wertsch, Department of Education
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
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